Plan8’s favorite telecom policy wonkette and all around badass telecommunications law maven Susan Crawford has written up a piece over at Backchannel about Western Massachusetts’s fiber fiasco. This report sheds light on the national failure to provide high-speed digital access to rural America as the story of a fiber optic network project by thirty-one (31) Massachusetts towns told as their community project is indefinitely delayed because of state apathy and delays in approval and funding.
[The Hills Are Dead — Without the Sound of Internet Access – backchannel]
Originally from the Maryland beltway area. Patrick lived in Los Angeles for a couple of years. Now he is based in the Portland area. In the past Patrick has been an IT engineer, technology consultant, software trainer, technology journalist, blogger, and podcaster. Currently he is returning to school for a degree in Computer Science & Engineering.
Patrick Roanhouse – who has written 74 posts on Plan8.
